T20 World Cup 2026 Most Runs: India wicket-keeper Sanju Samson has created waves with two back-to-back match-winning performances in the T20 World Cup. Backing up his unbeaten 97 in the Super 8 match against the West Indies in Kolkata, Samson revelled with a scintillating 42-ball 89 against England at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.
Samson’s knock laced with a bevy of boundaries also propelled him to 16 sixes in the tournament despite playing only four innings in the tournament. The 31-year-old thereby in a T20 World Cup edition by an Indian batter as the Men in Blue pipped England by seven runs to reach their fourth final.
Samson also recorded the joint-highest score by an Indian batter in T20 World Cup knockouts, equalling Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 89 in the 2016 T20 World Cup semi-final at the same venue against the West Indies. In only four innings, Samson became only the fourth Indian opener to record 200-plus runs in the T20 World Cup, joining Rohit, Gautam Gambhir and .
Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan finds himself on top of the run-scorers charts, having racked up two centuries and as many fifties. Powering New Zealand to the final with a marauding century off only 33 deliveries, opener Finn Allen moved up to No. 3 ahead of the summit clash. Among Indians, Ishan Kishan leads the charts, scoring 263 runs in eight innings, followed by at No. 9, with 242 runs at a 34.57 average.
